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SimpDAOs, or tokenized fan clubs 💗 Crypto has given rise to a strange yet telling phenomenon known as SimpDAOs — “fan DAOs” where people rally around an influencer or media personality 🫤 The most famous example is IreneDAO. In 2022, Singaporean model and crypto influencer Irene Zhao launched a collection of NFT memes. Buying one granted access to a DAO where fans could interact with her, vote on ideas, and get “exclusive” perks. The hype attracted even big names like Logan Paul, and NFT prices soared 🔼 In essence, it was the tokenization of affection: the more you “simped” for the influencer, the more you invested in the DAO. But the risks were obvious. Once public attention faded, so did interest in the DAO and its tokens. And the structure itself was rarely truly decentralized. Power almost always sat with the influencer or their inner circle On the flip side, SimpDAOs revealed something important: the DAO concept can work not just for protocols or investments, but also for cultural and media communities (even if they don’t always live up to the full ideals of decentralization) 🙃

DAO raids: the new “profit scheme” for whales and arbitrage traders? ⚔️⚔️ In 2023–2024, the crypto world witnessed several high-profile attacks on DAOs. So-called “raiders” bought up governance tokens not to build the community, but to seize DAO treasuries. The most notorious cases — Nouns DAO and Aragon DAO 😢 In Nouns DAO, investors spotted an arbitrage: the price of an NFT with voting rights was lower than the treasury value per token. They started buying in bulk and pushing their proposals. In Aragon DAO, raiders managed to acquire a controlling stake and voted to reallocate assets — tens of thousands of ETH were pulled from the treasury, effectively “resetting” the DAO. Don’t be like these guys. In XDAO, protection against such raids is built into the architecture:

🔤 GP tokens are non-transferable and non-tradable. They cannot be bought on the market to gain control over a DAO 🔤 Transfers of GP tokens are only possible through consensus. They can move between wallets solely by decision of DAO members 🔤 The architecture eliminates raid scenarios. DAOs are shielded from hostile takeovers, and power cannot be concentrated in a single holder’s hands

Ignore these safeguards, and a DAO’s treasury becomes an easy target for raiders. With the right architecture, a DAO remains a tool for growth — not a playground for speculation 👨‍💻

Old world normies open companies. New world chads build DAOs

The easiest book to grasp DAO in practice — our top recommendation! 📖 In January 2025, How to DAO: Mastering the Future of Internet Coordination was released — arguably the first serious attempt to systematically explain how to build and run a DAO 🗂 The authors are Kevin Owocki (co-founder of Gitcoin DAO) and Punсar (Web3 researcher and practitioner). Not theorists, but people who have actually launched and managed DAO projects From the book you’ll learn: 1️⃣ why Web3 needs DAOs and how they differ from traditional companies 2️⃣ how to design governance architecture and avoid chaos 3️⃣ what roles and mechanics are essential inside a DAO, and how voting works 4️⃣ all about the Pre-DAO and Post-DAO stages (when a project is still founder-led vs. when it’s time to decentralize) 5️⃣ real-world DAO practices and common mistakes It’s a ~300-page practical guide already endorsed by names like Don Tapscott (author of the bestseller Blockchain Revolution, one of the most cited digital economy researchers) and Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon co-founder) ✍️ If you want a deeper understanding of how DAOs really work, this book is a perfect place to start 🔠

D1ckDAO: the DAO we deserve 🍆 Sounds like a joke, but behind the name is a real DeSci project. The team has built a DAO around men’s health — a field that traditional medicine has largely ignored for decades. Erectile dysfunction, hormone imbalances, dropping testosterone levels — issues that affect hundreds of millions of men worldwide, yet research receives less than 1% of major institutional budgets 🪙 The DAO model breaks this barrier. Members pool funds into an on-chain treasury and vote on which projects to finance. This isn’t just “conference talk” — it’s real initiatives. Already on the roadmap: a clinical trial with 150 participants, development of a new supplement for ED and hormonal imbalance, and TRIASIS — a testosterone delivery system without injections, using safe and convenient formats 💪 By the end of 2025, D1ckDAO plans to launch the first science-backed supplement for men’s health, kick off the 150-person clinical trial, and develop an AI assistant for personalized health management. Profits from these products will flow back into the DAO via the $D1CK token: part of the revenue will be used to buy back the token, redistributing value to the community 🫰 Decentralization isn’t just for finance or startups. This is a real case of a community taking on a neglected issue and turning a meme into scientific infrastructure 🤜

FUTURUM GEORGIA by MEXC — Crypto x iGaming x AI 📍 September 20, Tbilisi One day packed with insights, networking & next-gen tech ✨ On the Crypto & iGaming panel, XDAO co-founder Zurab Shavlidze will share his vision of how DAOs are emerging as a new form of cooperation — and the role they play in transforming the management of businesses, digital assets, and communities in Web3 What else to expect: — 20+ speakers & panels on Web3, trading, iGaming, mining & AI — Startup Pitch Battle for rising founders — Investors, KOLs & industry leaders from across the region — Expo, networking lounges & VIP spaces — Closing afterparty 🪩🥂 Headline speakers include Tobias Bauer (TBV), Alexey Ten (MEXC), Irakli Kashibadze (Future Laboratory VC), and more 💸 Tickets from just $35 — Early Birds still available: futurumevent.com/georgia

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Tokenization + DAO = a powerful tandem 🌍 Tokenization in crypto makes it possible to bring anything onto the blockchain: houses, land, bonds, gold, carbon credits. Assets become “split into tokens,” and anyone can buy a share — not just banks or millionaires. For example, you can own a small slice of luxury real estate or a bond fund as easily as holding a token on an exchange 📊 But owning is one thing — managing such an asset is much harder. What to do with the property? Where should rental income go? When to sell, and at what price? If there are hundreds or thousands of owners, without a clear system it all turns into chaos 🤯 This is where DAOs amplify the effect of tokenization. All the rules for managing assets are hard-coded into smart contracts. Tokenization gives access to new asset classes that were previously closed off to the masses, while DAOs add a clear and fair system of governance. Together, they turn closed markets like real estate or debt instruments into open, global ones 🌏 In essence, we’re moving toward a world where any asset can be owned and governed directly on-chain: from a piece of land to a bond, from gold to a company’s future revenue 🔗

XDAO just got better: add multiple GPs at once 👥 Previously, adding several General Partners to a DAO meant going through the full cycle for each wallet: create a proposal → vote → wait for consensus → create another proposal → vote again… That made the process 6 steps long and more expensive 😬 Now it’s much simpler — you can add multiple GPs with a single proposal. The flow is cut in half: just 3 steps instead of 6, plus saving on fees ☺️ Faster, easier, cheaper ⚡️

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Uniswap DAO and a lesson for the whole industry 🦄 Recently, one of the most active delegates of Uniswap DAO — an anonymous member known as Pepo, who controlled nearly half a million $UNI and was among the top-20 voting addresses — publicly exited the organization. This was a loud move, considering that Uniswap DAO is seen as one of the largest and most influential decentralized organizations in the DeFi space. According to him, real power has shifted away from the community to the Uniswap Foundation, which the DAO had recently granted $165M. Other delegates share the same frustration: key decisions are being made behind closed doors, and the DAO is turning into a formality 😣 The issue here is that, despite its massive treasury and billions in liquidity, the DAO lacked built-in checks and balances. Handing over resources to the Foundation essentially undermined the principle of “the community governs the protocol,” creating a power center beyond the token holders’ control. What was supposed to be a decentralized structure is slowly drifting toward a corporate-style model of governance 🗿 The key takeaway: even the biggest DAOs with billion-dollar treasuries can lose decentralization if they don’t set up a clear system of balance and transparent rules. A DAO is not just a label, it’s an architecture. Without it, any organization risks turning into a regular company with a decorative community around it 😐 In English, “DOA” usually means “Dead on Arrival” — something that fails right from the start. In crypto, it’s often used as a joke or criticism: a project might call itself a DAO, but in reality it’s “dead” and doesn’t live up to the principles of decentralization

There will be a DAO season. Don’t miss it like you missed the NFT season. Jump in! 🔥

How the community turned ETHDenver into a DAO, hackathon, and investment fund 🚬 ETHDenver is one of the biggest and most recognizable events in the crypto world. But few know that behind all the buzz stands a DAO: a real decentralized unit with its own treasury, token, and legal entity In 2021, the organizing team formalized everything as SporkDAO — a legally registered cooperative DAO structure in Colorado. The community didn’t just attend the event, they became co-owners of the entire ecosystem: from the festival and startup infrastructure to a venture fund 🔥 SporkDAO has its own token, $SPORK — but you can’t buy or mine it. You have to earn it: by contributing to ETHDenver, helping out at events, being active in the community, or even buying NFT merch. That’s the point: the power lies not in capital, but in participation 🪙 Earned $SPORK? Staked it? Then you get a share of the DAO’s profits. In 2024, SporkDAO distributed dividends for the first time — $52,800 USDC went out to token holders. This is a real working business model for profit distribution, rooted in cooperative law SporkDAO has already become a cultural entity, an ecosystem that attracts people from around the world. The festival itself is just the “showcase” — the real work happens under the hood: venture, acceleration, governance, and Web3 coordination 🖥

DAO chats and notifications 🕺 Staying on top of everything happening in your DAO just got a whole lot easier: 1️⃣ Each proposal now has a sequential number, making it easier to navigate the voting list 💬 You can now link a group chat directly to your DAO in the info section 🔄 This chat will automatically receive notifications when a vote starts, its current status, and the final results 🔔 You’ll also get personal messages from the XDAO bot whenever new proposals are created 📌 How to link a chat to your DAO:

1. Create a group chat for your DAO 2. In the settings, add @xdao_ton_bot as an administrator and grant the required permissions 3. The bot will prompt you to link the chat to your DAO 4. Confirm the proposal with an off-chain vote from members

Now all updates and voting events of your organization will always be at your fingertips — right inside your DAO’s Telegram group 😎

DAO governance is heating up right now: 1️⃣ Lido DAO is boosting security and transparency — voting now happens in two stages (first off-chain, then on-chain) 2️⃣ MakerDAO launched a sleek new portal where $MKR holders can easily view active proposals and vote 3️⃣ Decentraland DAO uses a flexible voting system to make decisions on a wide range of community matters 4️⃣ Shiba Inu’s Doggy DAO introduced quadratic voting to distribute power more fairly (each additional vote costs more, reducing whale dominance and making governance more balanced) 5️⃣ Jito DAO is scaling Solana with decentralized solutions 6️⃣ Uniswap DAO is considering registering in Wyoming as a DAO LLC to gain official legal status 7️⃣ Polkadot DAO rolled out OpenGov 2.0 — a fully decentralized governance model where referenda are the highest authority and proposals are split across 26 distinct tracks (finance, upgrades, infrastructure, etc.) 8️⃣ Duna DAO gave its token holders the right to vote on how fees in the protocol are calculated and distributed 9️⃣ HTX DAO is upgrading its governance: $HTX holders can now propose, vote, and decide which tokens should be listed or delisted from the platform

The cost of not creating a DAO: chaos and distrust 😐 When a startup, crypto project, business, or community runs everything through a single wallet, with “handshake” equity and no clear decision-making rules — it all comes down to luck and personalities. Payouts stall, deadlines slip, partnerships collapse, and investors walk away because nothing is formalized or guaranteed 😔 A digital organization in XDAO turns vague agreements into code. All commitments are recorded on-chain, withdrawal rules are set via multisig and limits, decisions are made through quorum-based voting, and smart contracts enforce the results. The full history of votes and transactions is public, so you can prove your organization is in order with a single link 😘 In practice, it’s simple: add 2–3 participant wallets, assign roles and shares, enable multisig, and launch your first vote — for example, to approve a budget and payout schedule. Instead of manual transfers, you submit on-chain proposals from the treasury that are approved and executed automatically, no human error involved 💻 The cost of doing nothing? Delays, disputes, lost deals, and broken trust. The cost of creating a DAO today? Just ~$10. A small price to pay for order, trust, and access to capital. The choice is yours

The main XDAO app now has a blue checkmark too. Telegram has officially verified us ✅

📢 AMA session with TON — happening today at 15:00 UTC Guests of the live talk:

▪️ XDAO — the largest DAO platform in Telegram ▪️ Referendum — decentralized voting infrastructure for TON

We’ll discuss the future of Web3 in TON, new products, and what’s ahead for these teams The AMA will take place on X (Twitter) Spaces — tune in, ask your questions, and catch alpha straight from the builders 🫢 Hit the link and set a reminder so you don’t miss the start! 🔔

Exclusive reward campaign from XDAO is now live in Tonkeeper 🏅 Tonkeeper has launched a brand-new feature — Rewards: in-wallet quests from top-tier projects with real prizes 👛 XDAO is among the first to join. We’ve launched a special airdrop campaign for users of the #1 wallet in the TON ecosystem — and it’s already live, but only for a limited time ⏱ If you’re using Tonkeeper, open the Browser tab at the bottom, look for the “Rewards” banner, and don’t miss your chance to join!